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- Never let the fear of failure be an excuse for not trying. Society tells us that to fail is the most terrible thing in the world, but I know it isn't. Failure is part of what makes us human.
- Amber Deckers, Ella Mental and the Good Sense Guide
- Painting in watercolor is like walking a tight-rope; one must achieve a perfect balance between what the paint wants to do and what the artist wants to do, or all is lost.
- Mary C. Taylor, Watercolor Bold and Free
- The need of man to wholly realize himself is the only fixed star.
- Arthur Miller (1915 - 2005), Tragedy and the Common Man
- It is not much for its beauty that makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanates from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.
- Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894)
- Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now!
- Michael Landon (1936 - 1991)
- Anything you could ever want or be you already have and are.
- David Russell, I Heart Huckabee's
- Art has never been made while thinking of art.
- Niko Stumpo, The Wooster Collective, December 2006
- Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance. If the dispositions of the parties are ever so well known to each other or ever so similar beforehand, it does not advance their felicity in the least. They always continue to grow sufficiently unlike afterwards to have their share of vexation; and it is better to know as little as possible of the defects of the person with whom you are to pass your life.
- Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Pride and Prejudice, 1811
- Money's the same, whoever gives it to you. That was the point of money, after all: crisp and clean or wrinkled or disintegrated into quarters - a dollar was always worth a hundred cents.
- Scott Westerfeld, The Last Days, 2006
- Change happens by listening and then starting a dialogue with the people who are doing something you don't believe is right.
- Jane Goodall (1934 - )
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